Codexes of Polerio
The work of Giulio Cesare Polerio consist exclusively in handwritten Codexes. Accordingly, there is always a single, original Codex of Giulio Cesare Polerio existant. Sanvito 2005 has organised these 8 original Codexes of Giulio Cesare Polerio both by location and by supposed age. Abbreviations 1 Sv - 8 Sv are used to refer to this organisation primarily done by supposed age. Among these 8 Codexes , one has a questionable existance/Polerio provenience (8 Sv). Another has a missing location (7 Sv = the so called "Doazan"). In doubt, reference is made to Salvio 2005 (4 Sv = Codex # 4 as organised by Sanvito 2005).
Polerio Codexes by age
edit1 Sv = "7.8.1584?" (Sanvito [Baffioni])
2 Sv = "1579/80" (Baffioni)
3 Sv = "later than 1579 but earlier than 1585" (Baffioni)
4 Sv = "1594, before June 30" (Sanvito [Murry])
5 Sv = "20.06.1594, Rome" (Sanvito [Baffioni])
6 Sv = "XVIth century for sure (Leon)
7 Sv = (undetermined?)
8 Sv = (questionable Polerio)
Polerio Codexes by location
edit1 Sv = Bibliothèque nationale de France "955"
2 Sv = Vatican Library "Boncompagni 3"
3 Sv = Vatican Library "Boncompagni 2"
4 Sv = Bibliothèques de Toulouse "Tolosa"
5 Sv = Bibliothèque nationale de France "948
6 Sv = Cleveland Public Library "Leon"
7 Sv = unknown "Doazan"
8 Sv ? Cleveland Public Library "L'elegantia"
Games of Polerio by move order
editA Polerio
editA02 Polerio
editvdL 2 = 2 Sv
1.f4 f5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.e3 e6 4.d4 d5 5.c4 c5 6.cxd5 cxd4 7.dxe6 dxe3 8.Qxd8+ Kxd8 9.Ng5 Ke8 10.Bxe3 h6 11.Nf7 Rg8 12.Bb5+ Nc6 [12...Ke7 13.Bc5+ Kxe6 14.Bc4+] 13.Ne5
A10 Polerio
editvdL 1 = 2 Sv
1.c4 f5 2.Nc3 e5 3.e4 d6 4.d3 f4 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.Be2 Nf6 7.Bd2 Be7 8.Rc1 Nc6 9.Kb2 (rare case of "free castling" in Polerio's Codexes):
| a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | ||
| 8 |              | 8 | |||||||
| 7 | 7 | ||||||||
| 6 | 6 | ||||||||
| 5 | 5 | ||||||||
| 4 | 4 | ||||||||
| 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | ||
9. - 0-0 ("salta di Rè all'ordi[nari]o") 10.a3 Nd4+ (c.di.D.4.D.con. sca[cc]o/Queen's knight 4th of Queen with check) 11.Kb1 Nxe2 12.Qxe2
Sources
editVAN DER LINDE, ANTONIUS: Das Schachspiel des XVI. Jahrhunderts. Nach unedirten Quellen bearbeitet, Verlag von Julius Springer, Berlin 1874 LEON, J.A.: Forty-Six Games of Chess: by Giulio Cesare Polerio, from a hitherto unpublished Manuscript. 16 pp. "Reprinted from the 'British Chess Magazine, August,1894'.", 1894 BAFFIONI, PROF. GIOVANNI: Giulio Cesare Polerio Lancianese Maestro di Scacchi (XVI-XVII) Regione Abruzzo, Centro Servizi Culturali, Lanciano, 1993 SANVITO, ALESSANDRO: Il Boncompagni-Ludovisi era ritenuto disperso: Ritrovato un codice di Polerio, L’Italia Scacchistica: 311, 1994 BAFFIONI, PROF. GIOVANNI: Giulio Cesare Polerio, l’Apruzzese, Maestro di Scacchi Europeo (XVI-XVII), Litografia Botolini srl, Lanciano, 1995 SANVITO, ALESSANDRO: Bibliografia italiana degli scacchi, Degli origini al 1999, Edizione Sylvestre Bonnard sas, Mailand, 1999 SANVITO, ALESSANDRO: I codici scacchistici di Giulio Cesare Polerio e Gioacchino Greco, Messaggerie Scacchistiche, ISBN 88-901525-8-3, Brescia, 2005